DaBaby’s ‘Blame’ Tops Album Chart, as Fiona Apple’s ‘Bolt Cutters’ Comes in Third

In a bonus conversation, Isbell digs further into the craft that went into writing his "Reunions" album, and talks about how he approaches humor differently than his late pal Prine.

By now, just about everyone in the world has dealt with the emotional highs and lows of living under quarantine resulting from the global coronavirus pandemic. That includes Christine and the Queens, who spoke with Apple Music's Zane Lowe about how she's getting by.

By Chris Willman

For the first time in two decades, Fiona Apple has a song on a Billboard airplay chart. "Shameika," the lead single from Apple's new album Fetch the Bolt Cut

R&B and rap have a lock on the top 10 on both the album and song charts.

Fetch the remote! Fiona Apple made a rare television appearance Tuesday on Democracy Now! to discuss her new album Fetch the Bolt Cutters.Her first new album in eight years simultaneously conquered the Top Rock Albums and Alternative Albums May 2-dated charts, and its solid footing parallels where she recorded it: on indigenous American soil.Apple teamed up with Eryn Wise -- a Native American activist and the communications/digital director of the indigenous-led collective Seeding Sovereignty --

Fiona Apple soars back onto Billboard's charts, debuting at No. 1 on the Top Rock Albums and Alternative Albums charts dated May 2 with Fetch the Bolt Cutters, her first new LP in nearly eight years.The set bows atop both lists with 44,000 equivalent album units earned in its first week, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.

DaBaby leaps from No. 15 to No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart (dated May 2) to become the top musical act in the U.S. for the first time. The rapper leads the list thanks to his third LP,

Fiona Apple's fifth studio album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, has received glowing reviews. It has a perfect 100 score at the review aggregation site Metacritic.com, the highest rating for a studio album in the site's 19-year history. So the question arises: Will Grammy voters also feel the love? Short answer: almost certainly. When the

By Ellise Shafer

The staff of Pitchfork listens to a lot of new music. A lot of it.

Every Fiona Apple album offers something a little bit different: her approach to songwriting and production has consistently evolved, finding new prisms in which to refract her inherent genius.

Fiona Apple's new album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, has topped this week's new music poll.In the poll, published Friday (April 17) on Billboard, music fans voted for Apple's long-awaited fifth studio release as their favorite new release from this week.The 42-year-old artist's Fetch the Bolt Cutters album arrived Friday, marking Apple's first new album in eight years.

Scots singer Gerry Cinnamon released his much-anticipated new album on Friday - and it's already rocketed to the top of the UK iTunes album chart.

Fiona Apple isn't holding anything back these days.

Fiona Apple, Playboi Carti and Brett Eldredge brought a week of comeback music, and it's bound to hold fans over quite well during quarantine. But which new music release is doing the trick for you?Apple's fifth album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, bridges the eight-year gap between the art-pop singer-songwriter's last project, with piano crescendos, cymbals crashing and other sonic anomalies only the 42-year-old artist could pull off.

The drought is over. Fiona Apple is back in action with Fetch the Bolt Cutters, her first new album in eight years.

While many artists have retreated from their album release plans, Fiona Apple forged on and thrust her new album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, into an ailing, uncertain and largely paralyzed world. What a welcome, electric antidote it is.

Fiona Apple has released her first new album in eight years. Listen to Fetch The Bolt Cutters below.